Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Right before The Force Awakens came out, Kevin Necessary and I talked about doing a Star Wars tribute show. We knew at the time, we were too crazy busy to do it but the topic kept coming up and Kevin suggested having his good friends at Brew House host the show.

Fortunately for us, they were up for it! Next, we had to cajole our many busy artist friends to participate. We are overwhelmed with the results!

Also, Anthony "Tank" Mansfield, Jaimie Filer, Justin Stewart and I will be making live art during the show.

The show is at Brew House on 1047 East McMillan from 6-1l.

I will be auctioning off my live art to Force for Change and BH will also be donating a portion of food and drink sales plus any other donations.

Most of the art on the wall is for sale too. I have five new Star Wars pieces up.

Finn from The Force Awakens

Fabrication

It is fun to dip my toes into the Star Wars universe once again. As those who reads this blog know, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I did quite a bit of illustration for the Star Wars RPG for West End Games. Interior art and card inserts for 13 books to be exact. I only show 12 here because that makes a nice block and I cannot remember the last.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Here is a blast from the past of some of the cards I did for the Dune CCG in the 90s.

As has probably been chronicled before by other artists from the
project, we at first were directed to make it look like the movie and
then later were told not to in later sets.
I could not find the cards to of my favorite paintings for the sets
and did more of them than I thought. I hope I can find the rest. Many of
the original art scans are on long forgotten zip drive cartridges(I DO
NOT miss those)…

Of course it is crazy to find anything you did 18 or so years ago.
(And I do hundreds of illustrations a year, do the math and imagine an
episode of Hoarders and you get the idea of how many books, cards,
paintings etc. I have…)

It is funny to look at them now. I would probably make some different
design decisions. Many of the illustrations look like they take place
in a hotel (perhaps an art deco Hilton in desperate need of a remodel?)
and I like to think I would make better composition choices now…

FUN FACT: The model for this illustration was in my Industrial Design class at UC and is a designer at Hasbro. He also is in some on my D & D art and a couple other games.

Friday, April 10, 2015

I recently ran out of business cards and had a pop culture gallery show coming up so I took some of the gazillion blank backed cards Wizards of the Coast used to give the artists and put labels on the backs. It was a big hit.

At this week's illustrators lunch, I gave one to an illustrator who worked for Ral Partha back in the day. He said he actually designed this mech. How cool is that? I probably bought that miniature too since when I did assignments for FASA, I tried to buy them when possible to draw from.